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Edit April 2023: I am not the Norma I was in Aug. 21 anymore. I changed my goal to become a book illustrator and I quit creating cartoons with Sims 4. I'm on the way to create cartoons with my own sketches now.


I'm Norma, a german romance author with the childhood dream of comic book artist. With the game Sims 4 and Photoshop I create cartoons and scene pictures. I take screenshots of my Sims (versions of my book characters) and puzzle them together in Photoshop, sometimes body part by body part. (I don't use mods.) My goal is to get more involved in drawing and to be less dependent on the game.

I am learning with Marc Brunet's courses.

They are pushy, aren't they?

27 days later

I did my homework and combined two assignments from Marc Brunet's art school (term 1: perspective and combining images). The picture I created is a drawing, in which I have inserted several stock photos. The couch is a screenshot from Sims 4. I needed a picture that shows a couch from behind and couldn't find it as a stock photo. I modified the couch with Photoshop and covered it with a different fabric.

19 days later

I startet with bullet journaling end of 2018 and do it regularly since October 2020, when a personal tragedy struck me. Drawing and painting is soothing.
The reason, I show you this photo is the watercolor painting, I glued in the BJ. I painted the tree trunk and branches using a method I learned in Marc's drawing class. I practiced with a drawing tablet and Photoshop, but I was able to transfer the method to the real brush.
(The quote is a piece from my experience as a romance author. Many authors are using olives to descibe the skin colour of Latin Americans, Spaniards and Italians. It is odd. I searched for all kind of olives but no variety has similarity to the skin tone of humans.

1 year later

A couple of days ago I was ranting about AI and how book authors will use it in the future. I was not in a good headspace at that time and I deleted the post after one day.

I am a romance book author with the desire to also become a book illustrator. Managing BookTok, BookTube and Bookstagram are my daily tasks.

At the moment I only see a few authors who use AI to generate images for their book marketing. But I think there will be more with time. I would too, only Adobe hasn't invited me to the Firefly beta yet (I've applied for it). Currently, I feel this AI is the only one that is reasonably fair. They say they only use their stock photos to train the AI.

Yesterday I received a marketing E-Mail from one of the marketing professionals I booked a course years ago about book marketing. I didn't regret taking this course at the time, although I'm still bad at marketing. In any case, this man knows how to make money with the “insecure self-publisher sheep”. He offers a new course how to create book covers with AI.

And in my head sang this lady from TikTok, whose snippet of text consists of three letters. I would be rude to write the 3 letters side by side here.

Do I think the offer is shady? Of course not! He is a good teacher (and good at inventing courses nobody knew they needed).

My cursing with the W, the T and the F was more towards life. Here I am, trying to learn drawing my book charas and now the AI can do the job too (probably).

Regardless I plan to use AI generated content myself in the future I was mildly annoyed.

Recently I saw a video by Adam Duff. He reflects a lot about AI art. He says the AI is incapable of creating concepts. That comforted me for the moment.

(I hope this post is within the rules of this category. It says above that we can write down our thoughts here.)

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